Dr. Li Yanming, Professor of French Language and Literature at Beijing International Studies University, Ph.D supervisor. She was Visiting Scholar at Paris-Sorbonne University in 2000. She used to work in Anhui Finance and Economics University and University of Science and Technology of China, and has been teaching French for 34 years. Currently, she is one of the members of French Teaching Advisory Board under the Ministry of Education (2013-2017), and is also on the Board of Experts for Elementary Courses Textbooks under the Ministry of Education (2014-2017).

Main research fields: Translation Theories and practice, French literature

Main Publications: Professor Li has participated in many important translation activities in China in the areas of literature, philosophy, politics and economics, and 15 of her translation works have been published, including The War by Le Clézio - the Nobel Prize winner in 2008 (co-translation), The Red Brazil- a Goncourt Prize-Winning novel, The Devil’s Pool, Existentialism, Miss Liberty, What is a European intellectual, etc. In 2011, her translation of The Female Traveller in the Night was very well received by the public and was nominated in Fu Lei Translation Award. In 2014, she translated In the East of the Clouds by Asian Literary Prize winner Vincent Hein. In the same year, she translated Old Institution and Revolution, and the work is to be republished in Taiwan. She is the leading researcher of“French Renaissance Literature”, a sub-project of “Translation Project of the History of Classic French Literature” supported by Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China in 2012.

In the field of literature, Professor Li also made great accomplishments which focus mostly on Voltaire. Her monograph The Image of Voltaire in China (written in French and published by Hongkong Quaille Press in 2010), shows, from a phenomenological perspective, an objective view out of the illusion of time by incorporating the philosopher Derrida’s principles; it also accentuates on the situation of the thinker as well as the writer. The book digs deeply into Wittgenstein’s rich thoughts on "language games" as well. Some of the critical assumptions in this book can be used for other studies on Voltaire. Sylvain Menant, a tenured professor of Paris-Sorbonne University who specializes in the study of Voltaire, gave this book a high compliment in the preface, saying that“this book contributes greatly to the mutual understanding between French people and Chinese people”.

    Furthermore, Professor Li Yanming’s articles in the fields of translation and French literature have been published in prestigious journals such as Chinese Translators Journal, Foreign Literatures, Contemporary Foreign Literature, etc. Her name is one of the entries of Encyclopedia of China’s Contemporary Translators. She has been twice awarded the Special Translation Prize from the Ministry of Culture of France.